The board of county commissioners of each organized county having territory therein which is not organized into civil townships shall divide such territory into such number of districts, not exceeding eight, as it shall deem advisable, from each of which districts there may be appointed at the time specified in § 7-13-1, one constable who shall serve for a term of two years.

Source: SL 1901, ch 169, §§ 1, 2; RPolC 1903, § 961; RC 1919, § 6026; SL 1920 (SS), ch 38, § 2; SDC 1939, § 12.1501; SL 1961, ch 32, § 1.